This link was apparently posted to HN two days ago when
it was published but with the boring title
"Neo900 2016 Week 47". I think there is probably someone
on HN interested in looking over it, so I posted it to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13002613
with a better title hoping someone who should see it sees it,
though the time of day might be bad and even though
I tried to use a better title it might still be too
vague to attract any attention. I looked over the
schematics myself but I don't have any input for the
Neo900 guys, being just a second year EE student
(also, though I'm interested in electronics and
microelectronics I'm still going to go the path
of the power subdisipline as has been my plan
since before I started).
I heard about this way back in 2014, why hasn't neo900 progressed much? It seems like Xunlong is able to turn out new boards based on the A20, H3 and H5 in a matter of weeks at a price point of $7 to $35, with the Linux sunxi community building a fully free stack for them in rapid order.
Why has it taken so long, and additionally cost so much to produce a single board? I feel like a project like this needs to just partner with a Chinese business like Xunlong and specify what they want & with what chipset, like how the OrangePi Plus 2E was built.
If there is demand Xunlong will build a board (or if they think there is demand), the only sunk costs they seem to have are the minimal inventory they have on hand.
Board design is all in house, they're the original designer of quite a few non-Raspi SBCs on the market today, that being said they have just a handful of employees.
